He is a 30-year-old college student who gets by on loans and freelance jobs as a legal assistant and public notary. He does not have a bank account. He does not have a credit card. When he says he lives paycheck to paycheck, he means it quite literally: If he runs out of the money he keeps in the (sometimes torn) pocket of his pants, it means he has nothing until his next check comes along.
It’s a tough time to be one of New York’s Finest. With the NYPD facing a blizzard of damning incidents in recent months, cops and police brass say morale among the force is perilously low.
A goodwill visit to San Francisco and the Sonoma Coast by a big, handsome Russian sailing ship was suddenly canceled Friday, the result of a complicated legal problem that involves both history and cultural treasures.
Israeli police say a 20-year-old yeshiva student has been stabbed by a Palestinian assailant in Jerusalem yesterday.
Efraim Gershowitz is sitting shiva after the passing of his dear mother Batya Pessa OBM, at 821 eastern pkwy until Thursday.
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Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Mendy and Shayna (nee Bloch) Bukiet (Los Angeles, CA)
Dovid and Ruta (nee Greenberg) Okonov (Brighton Beach, NY)
Over 1000 people partook in the ‘second Hakafos’ at the Ma’arat Hamachpelah in Chevron, organized by local Shliach Rabbi Danny Cohen.
Hundreds made their way all over the city to bring the joy of Simchas Torah to many Shuls around the New York City area, walking as far as the Bronx or as close as Park Slope. We want YOU to share your Tahalucha experience with CrownHeights.info readers.
Immanuel and Rochie Storfer (N. Miami Beach, FL)
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s last moments Thursday were as violent as the uprising that overthrew him.
As word of Gilad Shalt’s release from Gaza broke Tuesday afternoon in Israel, Rabbis Yosef Lipsker, Elazar Kenig and Rabbi Yaakov Fridman, Chabad’s emissaries to the Russian Federation, joined members of the Israeli embassy in celebration. Arriving at the courtyard of the embassy in Moscow, they set up a portable sukkah.
A special energy radiated from the fullest crowd of the week, who danced non-stop knowing that this would be the last Simchas Beis Hashoevah of this year. At around 12:45am the crowd marched their way up Kingston Ave. to 770, where they recited the entire Tehillim as customary.
At the start of Chabad of Rego Park’s recent Yom Kippur eve services, Rabbi Eli Blokh asked two men to hold the Torah scrolls in front of the ark as a visiting chazzan chanted Kol Nidre.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A careless driver cut a taxi off and caused him to swerve and strike another vehicle and traffic signal pole. Two were injured and taken to local hospitals for treatment.
Marking the month of Tishrei CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos of the Rebbe giving Kos Shell Bracha.
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